BLACK LIKE BECKHAM

Norman Chester Centre for Football Research
www.le.ac.uk/snccfr/resources/factsheets/fs4.html
A comprehensive history about Black footballers in the UK from the 1920's to the present.

Wellingborough District Racial Equality Council
www.wellingboroughrec.org.uk/settlers.htm
The website has information on footballers like Walter Tull and John Parris as well as other historical figures of colour living in Northamptonshire from the 18th Century to the present.

Football Culture.net
www.footballculture.net/players/int_heron.html
Giles Heron, father of jazz musician Gil Scott Heron was one of the first black players to play for Celtic.

University of York - Leeds legends
www-users.york.ac.uk/~sph2/lufc/mag/albert.htm
Reprinted from Leeds United Monthly an obituary for Albert Johanneson who was one of the most famous black footballers in the 1960's.

Operation Black Vote
www.obv.org.uk/blackhistory/waltertull.html
Some information on Walter Tull one of the earliest black footballers in the UK.

Black Presence in Britain
www.blackpresence.co.uk
Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer. Contains a streaming video clip.